10,000-year-old remains of settlements are unearthed in Bolivia - making it the oldest

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10,000-year-old remains of settlements are unearthed in Bolivia - making it the oldest archaeological site in the Amazon
Swiss researchers from the University of Bern said mounds of snail shells were left by settlers in the early Holocene period, around 10,400 years ago
Experts once thought the previously unexplored area had been rarely occupied by communities due to poor environmental conditions
By SARAH GRIFFITHS
PUBLISHED: 21:01 GMT, 28 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:24 GMT, 30 August 2013


The top layer of the middens contained materials such as pottery, bone tools (pictured) and human bones. The older and newer layers are separated by a thin band rich in pieces of burnt clay and earth and the uppermost layer of deposits was also seen to contain occasional fragments of earthenware pottery

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[Loki]

Really cool find. Humans could have been in the Americas for far longer than we thought.